Books with author Arthur Adams

A shipwreck. A tropical island. A small band of castaways. From among them an unlikely leader emerges.“So we camped that night on the summit. And when…I awoke and sat up, I saw Greatheart's figure standing, tremendous against the red disc of the level sun. About him…he had swathed the old Australian flag…And, seeing him haloed, as it were, by the red sun, I perceived a certain aspect of power in his face, an unexpected suggestion of grandeur. Wrapped in his strange garment, he looked almost heroic. About him was the blue of the heavens, and on his breast were stars.”

Escape to Australia. 1912!A boating accident on Sydney harbour. Hugh crashes into Nancy’s orbit. Is she “hotstuff”, as Charlie puts it? And what does that mean? Perhaps he is seeing her through a distorted lens.“It was Saturday night, and from the closely sandwiched terraces of the far-stretched inland suburbs the youth of Sydney had come for a whiff of sea-air, the zest of a new horizon. The big boat was packed with lovers and would-be lovers. Two and two they sat communing.The girls had, despite the cheapness of their dresses, that Parisian, yet sharply individual, touch that distinguishes the Sydney girl…These girls were fully conscious of themselves, able — and willing — to look a man in the face, ready to meet him on equal terms, quite able to take care of themselves.”

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Excerpt from A Touch of Fantasy: A Romance for Those Who Are Lucky Enough to Wear GlassesA week. Before, Hugh Robjohn had, at last, persuaded himself that his eyes needed attention. He had gone on so long misusing them - reading at breakfast, reading at lunch, reading in bed, reading any sort Of type in any sort of light - that it was a shock to him to find them failing him. Blurs came Often before them at inconvenient moments; black Specks came sailing into his vision and obstructing his view of the type; sudden pin-points of brilliance danced away when he looked up; headaches came just when he needed to concentrate his attention on his reading more than once he had actually to put down an entrancing volume like The Meaning of Money, and go out, half-blinded, into the night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Touch of Fantasy: A Romance for Those Who Are Lucky Enough to Wear GlassesA week. Before, Hugh Robjohn had, at last, persuaded himself that his eyes needed attention. He had gone on so long misusing them - reading at breakfast, reading at lunch, reading in bed, reading any sort Of type in any sort of light - that it was a shock to him to find them failing him. Blurs came Often before them at inconvenient moments; black Specks came sailing into his vision and obstructing his view of the type; sudden pin-points of brilliance danced away when he looked up; headaches came just when he needed to concentrate his attention on his reading more than once he had actually to put down an entrancing volume like The Meaning of Money, and go out, half-blinded, into the night.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Grocer Greatheart: A Tropical RomanceAt dinner, the vacant Chairs were filled by men new shaven and women who had summoned up their courage to drag from their trunks their new dinner dresses; and everybody evinced a tenta tive interest in food. That evening there was music in the social hall, and four men sat down at a table in the card room to play bridge all the way to China.Next day deck games were in full swing, and little groups, after a game, stayed Chatting, each atom summing up the other atoms. The drops of Life on the ship's deck had begun to run together. Out of the original Chaos Life had been created. Society had formed itself into tribes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Grocer Greatheart: A Tropical RomanceAt dinner, the vacant Chairs were filled by men new shaven and women who had summoned up their courage to drag from their trunks their new dinner dresses; and everybody evinced a tenta tive interest in food. That evening there was music in the social hall, and four men sat down at a table in the card room to play bridge all the way to China.Next day deck games were in full swing, and little groups, after a game, stayed Chatting, each atom summing up the other atoms. The drops of Life on the ship's deck had begun to run together. Out of the original Chaos Life had been created. Society had formed itself into tribes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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